State Football and Plays

Well our Football team has made it to State playoffs for the first time in 17 years and for only the 4th time since football has been instituted in this school. WOOT WOOT!!!! My dd has made the lead in the school play for her senior year and our son is on the lighting crew. The house is coming along with our daughter actually now having a room that is done for her senior year!! Been busy keeping posters and run throughs made for the football team and helping the daughter rehearse for the play, plus keep all the appts that I have. Along with the dinner that we prepare for the football players prior to games, along with the food we get them for the bus rides and after the home games. Next comes wrestling season and forensics. Took a college visit with our daughter to the college she WANTS to go to...I know, I know, her choice, but, if you only knew! All five of the other kids are doing good and we are getting ready for another wedding next October where I am going to be a Brides Maid - I about fell over! I actually cried! A Brides Maid at my own step daughters wedding, has that ever been done before? I am actually quite honored that she thinks so highly of me, still makes me kind of weepy... Anyway. Didn't get to do much riding this summer unfortunately, but my hubby did get a new bike and it is gorgeous! All the animals are doing great and I moved the plants inside for the winter atrium...needless the say the cats love it! Well I think that is about it...God bless and God speed!

Good to be home

Well, we went on a little trip to N. Carolina so the kids could go to the beach before school started. We took our oldest daughter and her fiance and her youngest sister along with us. (two vehicles). It takes about 18 hours of drive time and we decided to drive straight through and only stop at rest areas for a few hours of sleep. It was all going well until... a rock came up and cracked the windshield...not bad mind you, but on my new car, on the drivers side. Then...as we are almost at our destination, here comes a flat, change the tire and drive on the donut. Get to town and find a tire place, they can't fix it! $300.00 for a new one! WHAT!!!! FOR ONE TIRE!!!! of course! We call our nephew and he finds one at half the cost but our trip will be delayed coming home by one day, call the kennel...and the person taking care of the house. Low pressure light keeps coming on, we figure it is for the donut. We catch the ferry, tool around around town and have a great time and the get to the hotel and get some rest and then figure out the next morning why the low pressure light kept coming on...the other tire was flat! Call the tow truck, load the kids up in the other car and send them to the beach...dad and I wait on the tow and head to the car dealership, neither tire can be fixed! Had to buy two new tires...you guessed it and the above mentioned price per tire, and the other one had already been ordered, so we couldn't cancel that one! 5 hours later, we get out of there and head out to meet the kids at the beach and have a great time. Our oldest daughter heads back a day before us as we had to wait now on the extra tire, we waited at my husbands sisters house, nice visit, get the tire on Friday, when we should have been home, then we head home. As we are approaching Kansas we get a phone call from the person taking care of the house to tell us the hot water heater was leaking all over the floor! What a trip! This was truly a National Lampoons family vacation! But it was still alot of fun! The kids made us laugh alot and it was still worth the trip!